Centerpiece For 3 Children, Art Deco Spanish School

This piece is made of two types of marble. The lower cup rests on three bronze tortoises. Benedicto was a disciple of Manuel Fuxá, Antonio Alsina, and Antonio Parera. In a classical style, he created several public artworks in Barcelona. The Fountain of the Fishing Boy (1947), at the corner of Avinguda Diagonal and Carrer Casanova, is a bronze sculpture depicting a young boy holding a fish in one hand and making the victory sign with the other. The Snow White Fountain (1947), in Plaça Gala, also in bronze and inaugurated the same day, depicts Snow White, the popular character from the Brothers Grimm, accompanied by a fawn. Youth (1952), in Plaça Francesc Macià, is a marble female nude created for the 1952 International Eucharistic Congress. To Alexander Fleming (1955), in the Dr. Fleming Gardens, next to the Hospital de la Santa Creu, is a marble bust of the discoverer of penicillin, located on a fountain. The bronze measures 35 cm.